Collaborations
The Impact Explorers Club is part of a wider ecosystem of people and organisations working towards systemic change. Beyond the Club itself, we regularly engage with peers, partners, and institutions who are exploring similar questions around capital, impact, and long-term transformation.
Sometimes this takes the form of joining conversations in the field. Sometimes it means sharing experiences from the Club. Not as finished frameworks, but as lived journeys. And occasionally, it involves supporting others who are seeking to develop a more systemic approach to their own work.
Bringing stories into the field
We are often invited to contribute to gatherings, conferences, and events. Rather than abstract perspectives, we aim to bring real experiences into these rooms.
This can mean sharing learning and insights, but also explorers sharing how they are navigating their capital journeys. It can mean projects reflecting on what systemic work looks like in practice. Or it can mean conversations that connect both sides, exploring what happens when intention meets action.
We tend to favour dialogue over presentation. Roundtables, shared reflections, and peer exchanges often create more space for learning than one-directional talks.
Supporting systemic practice
Some organisations are not only curious about systemic change, they are actively trying to work within it.
Family offices, funds, and institutions occasionally reach out to explore how they might evolve their approach to capital. This can involve reflecting on infrastructure, governance, or portfolio thinking from a systemic perspective.
When this happens, we engage as peers within the field rather than as consultants. The intention is not to provide ready-made solutions, but to share experience, ask better questions, and support a gradual shift in practice.
Staying connected
These collaborations are typically facilitated through our network of experts at We Are Impact Collective, or the broader ecosystem within which the Explorers Club operates.
If you feel there may be a meaningful way to collaborate, whether through dialogue, events, or shared exploration, we’d love to hear from you.
We’re always open to thoughtful conversations.
Services
Exploring together
Explorers don’t only learn from one another — they often help others who are navigating similar questions around capital, impact, and systemic change.
Across the Impact Explorers Club and the wider WAIC ecosystem, members have developed experience in systemic investing, philanthropic strategy, portfolio thinking, governance, and narrative development. When others are exploring these themes, we sometimes step in to support that journey — not as consultants with fixed answers, but as peers who are willing to explore together.
Conversations & Deep Dives
Facilitating systemic conversations
We facilitate workshops, learning sessions, and deep dives on systemic investing and impact.
This can include:
- exploring how capital can contribute to systemic change
- unpacking specific themes or sectors
- reflecting on governance, ownership, or portfolio thinking
The aim is not to provide a ready-made model, but to create clarity through shared inquiry.
Pipeline & Portfolio Exploration
Navigating the landscape
With a well-connected network and years of experience across the field, we can support organisations and families in:
- identifying potential pipelines
- understanding emerging initiatives
- conducting background exploration
- distinguishing signal from noise
This can lead to building portfolios that align with long-term systemic intent, across different forms of capital.
Beyond Investing
Expanding what success looks like
Many capital decisions are still shaped by a narrow understanding of financial return.
In our work, we explore what becomes possible when success is not defined by financial ROI alone. Systemic impact often emerges through relationships, narratives, trust, legitimacy, and long-term cultural shifts — not just through measurable financial outcomes.
This invites a broader perspective on contribution. Capital can support systemic change in many ways: through philanthropy, connections, visibility, knowledge, or symbolic backing. Sometimes financial return plays a role. Sometimes it doesn’t.
Strategy & Narrative
Making systemic intent tangible
Some organisations or families are looking to shape their systemic strategy more intentionally. In these cases, we can support:
- systemic strategy development
- portfolio reflection
- clarifying positioning
- shaping narrative and tone of voice
Helping others articulate and share their systemic story can be just as important as capital deployment itself.
Looking ahead - Systemic Family Office as a service
Building the service for you.
As part of our ongoing exploration, we are working towards new approaches to systemic mindsets and capital deployment — including experiments around what a systemic family office model could look like.
Some of these learnings will appear in future Fieldbook chapters. Others will gradually take shape through practice.
As always, the aim is not to design in theory, but to explore in action.
Contact us
Learning by doing only works if you share what you experience. Systemic change happens inside and out, that’s why we share the stories of our projects, explorers, learnings, impact makers as one unfolding new narrative. Please send an email with your question or suggestion to info[at]thewaicexplorersclub.org.